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Tao Yu	faculty	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	Asia	Assistant Professor	NL2SQL, data agents, code generation	NL2SQL, data-agents, LLM-DB	high	considering	high	↗ Link
Reynold Cheng	faculty	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	Asia	Professor	uncertain data management, graph databases, knowledge graphs	knowledge-graph, query-optimization, LLM-DB	high	considering	medium	↗ Link
Binhang Yuan	faculty	HKUST	Hong Kong	Asia	Assistant Professor	LLM systems, distributed training, DB+ML systems	ML-systems, LLM-DB	high	considering	medium	↗ Link
Nan Tang	faculty	HKUST	Hong Kong	Asia	Associate Professor	data quality, crowdsourcing, table understanding, NL2SQL	NL2SQL, table-QA, data-integration, LLM-DB	high	considering	high	↗ Link
Bingsheng He	faculty	National University of Singapore	Singapore	Asia	Professor	data management systems, heterogeneous computing, GPU databases	query-optimization, ML-systems	high	considering	medium	↗ Link
Xiaokui Xiao	faculty	National University of Singapore	Singapore	Asia	Associate Professor	query processing, differential privacy, NLP+DB	query-optimization, LLM-DB, NLP	high	considering	medium	↗ Link
Stéphane Bressan	faculty	National University of Singapore	Singapore	Asia	Associate Professor	XML/graph databases, semantic query processing	knowledge-graph, query-optimization	high	considering	low	↗ Link
Guoliang Li	faculty	Tsinghua University	China	Asia	Professor	AI-native database, NL2SQL, DB+LLM, BIRD benchmark	NL2SQL, text-to-SQL, LLM-DB, data-agents	medium	considering	high	↗ Link
Jianhua Feng	faculty	Tsinghua University	China	Asia	Professor	data management, graph databases, knowledge graphs	knowledge-graph, query-optimization	medium	considering	medium	↗ Link
Xuanhe Zhou	faculty	Tsinghua University	China	Asia	Assistant Professor	NL2SQL, BIRD benchmark, database optimization, LLM+DB	NL2SQL, text-to-SQL, LLM-DB, query-optimization	medium	considering	high	↗ Link
Bin Cui	faculty	Peking University	China	Asia	Professor	big data, graph analytics, ML for systems	ML-systems, query-optimization	medium	considering	medium	↗ Link
Ji-Rong Wen	faculty	Renmin University of China	China	Asia	Professor	information retrieval, dialogue systems, LLM	NLP, LLM-DB, RAG	medium	considering	medium	↗ Link
Wayne Xin Zhao	faculty	Renmin University of China	China	Asia	Associate Professor	NLP, recommender systems, LLM	NLP, LLM-DB, RAG	medium	considering	medium	↗ Link
Yanghua Xiao	faculty	Fudan University	China	Asia	Professor	knowledge graphs, NL2SQL, knowledge engineering	knowledge-graph, NL2SQL, LLM-DB	medium	considering	medium	↗ Link
Xipeng Qiu	faculty	Fudan University	China	Asia	Professor	large language models, Chinese NLP	NLP, LLM-DB	medium	considering	low	↗ Link
Yunjun Gao	faculty	Zhejiang University	China	Asia	Professor	spatial-temporal data, query processing, graph databases	query-optimization, knowledge-graph	medium	considering	medium	↗ Link
Ting Liu	faculty	Harbin Institute of Technology	China	Asia	Professor	NLP, information extraction, dialogue systems	NLP, LLM-DB	medium	considering	medium	↗ Link
Wanxiang Che	faculty	Harbin Institute of Technology	China	Asia	Professor	NLP, semantic parsing, text-to-SQL	NLP, text-to-SQL, NL2SQL	medium	considering	high	↗ Link
Tim Kraska	faculty	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	USA	North America	Professor	learned indexes, ML for DB, LLM+DB	LLM-DB, ML-systems, query-optimization	low	considering	low	↗ Link
Michael Cafarella	faculty	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	USA	North America	Professor	information extraction, table understanding, web tables	table-QA, data-integration, NLP	low	considering	low	↗ Link
Aditya Parameswaran	faculty	UC Berkeley	USA	North America	Associate Professor	interactive data analytics, crowdsourcing, data wrangling	data-agents, data-integration, LLM-DB	low	considering	low	↗ Link
Christopher Ré	faculty	Stanford University	USA	North America	Professor	ML systems, Snorkel, weak supervision	ML-systems, LLM-DB, data-integration	low	considering	low	↗ Link
Immanuel Trummer	faculty	Cornell University	USA	North America	Associate Professor	NLP+DB, natural language query, DB auto-tuning	NL2SQL, LLM-DB, query-optimization	low	considering	medium	↗ Link
Kevin C.C. Chang	faculty	UIUC	USA	North America	Professor	NLP+DB, knowledge graphs, entity linking	NLP, knowledge-graph, LLM-DB, data-integration	medium	considering	medium	↗ Link
Huan Sun	faculty	Ohio State University	USA	North America	Associate Professor	semantic parsing, NL2SQL, dialogue systems	NL2SQL, text-to-SQL, NLP	medium	considering	medium	↗ Link
Yu Su	faculty	Ohio State University	USA	North America	Associate Professor	semantic parsing, LLM agents, KB-QA	NL2SQL, data-agents, NLP, knowledge-graph	medium	considering	medium	↗ Link
Xin Luna Dong	faculty	Harvard University	USA	North America	Professor	knowledge graphs, table understanding, data integration	knowledge-graph, table-QA, data-integration	low	considering	low	↗ Link
Jiannan Wang	faculty	Simon Fraser University	Canada	North America	Associate Professor	interactive data management, crowdsourcing, DB+NLP	data-agents, data-integration, LLM-DB	medium	considering	medium	↗ Link
Jimmy Lin	faculty	University of Waterloo	Canada	North America	Professor	information retrieval, NLP, dense retrieval	NLP, RAG	medium	considering	medium	↗ Link
M. Tamer Özsu	faculty	University of Waterloo	Canada	North America	Professor	distributed databases, graph database systems	query-optimization, knowledge-graph	medium	considering	low	↗ Link
Ce Zhang	faculty	University of Chicago	USA	North America	Professor	scalable ML systems, LLM+DB, data-centric AI	ML-systems, LLM-DB, data-integration	low	considering	medium	↗ Link
Anastasia Ailamaki	faculty	EPFL	Switzerland	Europe	Professor	database systems, ML+DB, database architecture	query-optimization, ML-systems, LLM-DB	medium	considering	medium	↗ Link
Volker Markl	faculty	TU Berlin	Germany	Europe	Professor	big data processing, Apache Flink, ML+DB	ML-systems, query-optimization	medium	considering	medium	↗ Link
Gerhard Weikum	faculty	MPI for Informatics	Germany	Europe	Director / Professor Emeritus	knowledge graphs, QA, information extraction	knowledge-graph, NLP, table-QA	low	not-applicable	low	↗ Link
Thomas Neumann	faculty	TU Munich	Germany	Europe	Professor	query processing, database kernels, HyPer system	query-optimization	medium	considering	low	↗ Link
Mirella Lapata	faculty	University of Edinburgh	UK	Europe	Professor	NLP, semantic parsing, text generation	NLP, text-to-SQL, NL2SQL	medium	considering	medium	↗ Link
Gholamreza Haffari	faculty	Monash University	Australia	Oceania	Professor	NLP, LLM, machine translation, text generation	NLP, LLM-DB	medium	considering	low	↗ Link
Trevor Cohn	faculty	University of Melbourne	Australia	Oceania	Professor	NLP, language models, QA systems	NLP	medium	considering	low	↗ Link
Bohan Li	faculty	UNSW Sydney	Australia	Oceania	Senior Lecturer	data engineering, DB query processing, text databases	query-optimization, data-integration	medium	considering	low
Qian Liu	industry	Microsoft Research Asia	China	Asia	Senior Researcher	NL2SQL, CodeBERT, UniXcoder, code generation	NL2SQL, text-to-SQL, LLM-DB	internship-only	considering	high	↗ Link
Yan Gao	industry	Microsoft Research Asia	China	Asia	Researcher	NL2SQL, schema linking	NL2SQL, schema-linking, text-to-SQL	internship-only	considering	high
Binyuan Hui	industry	Alibaba DAMO Academy	China	Asia	Algorithm Expert	BIRD benchmark, NL2SQL, code generation	NL2SQL, text-to-SQL, LLM-DB	internship-only	considering	high
Haoyang Li	industry	Alibaba DAMO Academy	China	Asia	Algorithm Expert	NL2SQL, BIRD, database agents	NL2SQL, text-to-SQL, data-agents	internship-only	considering	high
Yongbin Li	industry	Alibaba DAMO Academy	China	Asia	Senior Algorithm Expert	NLP, dialogue generation, NL2SQL	NLP, NL2SQL, LLM-DB	internship-only	considering	medium
Huawei Noah NL2SQL Team	industry	Huawei Noah's Ark Lab	China	Asia	Research Team	Chinese NL2SQL, DB+NLP	NL2SQL, text-to-SQL, NLP	internship-only	considering	medium	↗ Link
ByteDance DB+LLM Team	industry	ByteDance AI Lab	China	Asia	Research Team	LLM+DB, data agents	LLM-DB, data-agents	internship-only	considering	high
Baidu NLP Team	industry	Baidu Research	China	Asia	Research Team	Chinese NL2SQL, ERNIE+DB	NL2SQL, text-to-SQL, NLP	internship-only	considering	medium	↗ Link
Tencent AI NLP Team	industry	Tencent AI Lab	China	Asia	Research Team	NLP, DB+AI, knowledge graphs	NLP, LLM-DB, knowledge-graph	internship-only	considering	medium
Ant Group Data Platform Team	industry	Ant Group	China	Asia	Research Team	large-scale data management, LLM+DB	LLM-DB, data-agents	internship-only	considering	medium	↗ Link
4Paradigm DB+AI Team	industry	4Paradigm	China	Asia	Research Team	enterprise AutoML, DB+AI, OpenMLDB	LLM-DB, ML-systems	internship-only	considering	medium	↗ Link
Fatma Özcan	industry	Google Research	USA	North America	Research Scientist	NL2SQL, query processing, semantic search	NL2SQL, query-optimization, LLM-DB	internship-only	not-applicable	medium	↗ Link
Bowen Qin	industry	Salesforce Research	USA	North America	Research Scientist	DAIL-SQL, NL2SQL	NL2SQL, text-to-SQL, LLM-DB	internship-only	not-applicable	medium
Caiming Xiong	industry	Salesforce Research	USA	North America	VP of AI Research	NL2SQL, code generation, LLM	NL2SQL, LLM-DB, NLP	internship-only	not-applicable	low
Amazon Text-to-SQL Team	industry	Amazon Science	USA	North America	Research Team	enterprise data query, NL2SQL, error detection and correction	NL2SQL, text-to-SQL, data-agents	internship-only	not-applicable	medium	↗ Link
Databricks Research Team	industry	Databricks Research	USA	North America	Research Team	data lakehouse + LLM, DBRX	LLM-DB, data-agents, ML-systems	internship-only	not-applicable	medium	↗ Link
IBM NLP+DB Team	industry	IBM Research	USA	North America	Research Team	NL2SQL, Db2+AI	NL2SQL, LLM-DB	internship-only	not-applicable	low	↗ Link
Snowflake Research Team	industry	Snowflake Research	USA	North America	Research Team	data warehouse + LLM, Cortex AI	LLM-DB, data-agents	internship-only	not-applicable	medium	↗ Link
Meta AI Research Team	industry	Meta AI Research	USA	North America	Research Team	knowledge graphs, table understanding, data integration	knowledge-graph, table-QA, data-integration	internship-only	not-applicable	low
MSR NL2SQL Team	industry	Microsoft Research	USA	North America	Research Team	NL2SQL, code generation, LLM	NL2SQL, text-to-SQL, LLM-DB	internship-only	not-applicable	low	↗ Link
Google Cloud Text-to-SQL Team	industry	Google Cloud	USA	North America	Research Team	NL2SQL, text-to-SQL, data agents	NL2SQL, text-to-SQL, LLM-DB	internship-only	not-applicable	medium	↗ Link
Oracle Text-to-SQL Team	industry	Oracle	USA	North America	Research Team	NL2SQL, text-to-SQL, enterprise data systems	NL2SQL, text-to-SQL, LLM-DB	internship-only	not-applicable	medium	↗ Link
Yuyu Luo	faculty	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)	China	Asia	Assistant Professor	NL2SQL, text-to-SQL, data management	NL2SQL, text-to-SQL, LLM-DB	medium	considering	high	↗ Link
Nick Koudas	faculty	University of Toronto	Canada	North America	Professor	NL2SQL, reliable text-to-SQL, data management	NL2SQL, text-to-SQL, LLM-DB	low	considering	medium	↗ Link
Sainyam Galhotra	faculty	Cornell University	USA	North America	Assistant Professor	NL2SQL, interactive data systems, AI for data management	NL2SQL, text-to-SQL, LLM-DB	medium	considering	medium	↗ Link
Xiao Huang	faculty	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hong Kong	Asia	Assistant Professor	NL2SQL, text-to-SQL, LLM for data systems	NL2SQL, text-to-SQL, LLM-DB	medium	considering	high	↗ Link

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